60 Years of Canadian TV Was Collecting Dust. Bell and YouTube Are Changing That.

Bell Media Partners with YouTube to Unlock 60 Years of Canadian Culture for a Global Audience - Bell Media

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60 Years of Canadian TV Was Collecting Dust. Bell and YouTube Are Changing That.

Bell Media and YouTube have launched a massive project to digitize up to 400,000 physical tapes, bringing over 60 years of Canadian news, music, and cultural history to the internet. The initiative will use Google’s Gemini AI models to organize and search the footage, which dates back to the early 1960s. The archive includes a

Bell Media partners with YouTube to host digitized archive

Canada’s Bell Media has announced a new partnership with YouTube to host between 300,000 to 400,000 digitized physical tapes dating back to the early 1960s as part of its ongoing ...

Bell Media digitizing media archive with help of Google's Gemini AI

Bell Media has announced it’s planning to make its extensive media archive available on YouTube, with the help of AI. Spanning an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 physical tapes that date back to the early 1960s, Bell Media says it’s undertaking “a large-scale digitization effort” that will see more than 100,000 tapes converted by the end of this year, “preserving and reactivating legacy content for modern audiences.” The network credits Google’s Ge…